School and city officials in Madison hope to get students fed and increase engagement with families at the same time. They're piloting a program to offer free or reduced summer meals to adults as well as children.

A new report finds that nearly one-third of millennials are living with their parents, making it the most common living arrangement among young adults ages 18 to 34. For the first time in 130 years, young adults are more likely to live with their parents than out on their own...

Dear Doc: You were right! Again! I took my prescriptions to several local pharmacies and none of them, not one of them, would tell me prices unless I let them run prescriptions through. I couldn’t get the price without having them filled. Is this fair? I don’t think so. I...

Governors and Canadian premiers from the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway region have unanimously approved a new maritime strategy that calls for streamlining customs regulations to allow freer movement between Canada and the United States.

Gun sales usually spike following mass shootings like the one in an Orlando, Florida, nightclub last weekend. A northern Wisconsin professor warns arming ourselves might not be the answer, but some gun rights advocates say people should be able to defend themselves. Angela Stroud, assistant professor of sociology and social...

Yes, you can survive without a credit or debit card. But, credit cards and the credit system in the U.S. are one of the core systems for financial maneuvering, according to financial educator Tiffany Aliche. If you use credit cards wisely, they can be helpful, she said. "Think about a...

A new study on addiction finds that the prefrontal cortex -- the brain's planning and decision making center -- might be a hotspot for understanding how opiates interact with our brains. The theory comes after recent expirements at UW-Madison, where the rats with a higher amount of a substance similar...

New research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison found opioid addiction is related to the brain’s prefrontal cortex, the part responsible for self-control and planning. The prefrontal cortex could be a sensitive hot spot for opioid actions, and a key to understanding impulsive and reward-seeking behavior, according to a recent study...

State lawmakers mandated a turnaround plan for low-performing schools as part of the current budget and county officials released their strategy to comply in the spring. That's not sitting well with local education leaders.

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has signed off on the appointment of a Madison lawyer to the nation's oldest federal appeals court vacancy, but it's not clear that the full Senate will follow suit.

As the population in the U.S. ages, additional health care workers are vital to supporting the growing number of people with Alzheimer’s and dementia, according to a report released earlier this week. Alzheimer’s and dementia rates continue to rise, putting Wisconsin on path to double the more than 110,000 people...

This week, the Speaker's Task Force on Alzheimer's and Dementia released their latest findings of how best Wisconsin can address the growing number of cases of these degenerative diseases in the state. Representative Mike Rohrkaste (R-Neenah) serves as the Chair of that task force and joins us to talk about...

We live in an era of considerable advancement and change for LGBT rights...but a legal expert says that gay, lesbian and transgender citizens are still too often considered as ‘less-than-whole’ citizens...and are lacking full legal protections against various forms of discrimination. He discusses what it'll take to make American institutions...